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you got it totally backwards concept is exactly what you apply a patent for, implementation is application of concept
by borism 17y ago
you got it totally backwards
concept is exactly what you apply a patent for, implementation is application of concept
- GHFigs 17y agoI'm sorry, but you are mistaken. You cannot patent a concept, only inventions. You don't have to actually build the invention, but it does have to be a concrete thing and and not a wholly abstract idea. This is why patents have specific claims, descriptions, and diagrams associated with them, and not just titles. For instance, you can obtain a patent on a self-cleaning cat box by describing one and how it works[1], but if someone comes along and invents another self-cleaning cat box that works via some totally different method[2], your patent does not apply. You do not own the patent on the concept of a self-cleaning cat box, only the subset of all possible self-cleaning cat boxes that work more or less the way yours does. [1]: http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5113801 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5113801 [2]: http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6701868 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6701868
- lutorm 17y agoThat's how it should be. It seems to me that some of the software patents have crossed that line, as have the "business method" patents.